The painting above is “Baptism” by T. Coleman. Sonari Glinton tells the story of how a Catholic nun taught his entire school on Chicago‘s South Side that we are all made in image and likeness of God by putting a black Jesus in every classroom. Listen to the story on This American Life after the jump, it begins at the 34 min. mark.

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